Definitions for Wilts

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Wilts wilt

Spelling: [wilt]

IPA: /wɪlt/

Wilts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in Wilts (ilstw).

Definitions for Wilts

noun

1. the act of wilting, or the state of being wilted:
2. Plant Pathology. the drying out, drooping, and withering of the leaves of a plant due to inadequate water supply, excessive transpiration, or vascular disease. a disease so characterized, as fusarium wilt.
3. a virus disease of various caterpillars, characterized by the liquefaction of body tissues.
4. Also, Wilts [wilts] /wɪlts/ (Show IPA). a county in S England. 1345 sq. mi. (3485 sq. km). County seat: Salisbury.
5. one of an English breed of white sheep having long, spiral horns.
6. Also called Wiltshire cheese. a cylindrical, semihard cheese, moister and flakier than cheddar.

verb

1. second person singular present ind. of will1 .

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to wilt.

verb (used without object)

1. to become limp and drooping, as a fading flower; wither.
2. to lose strength, vigor, assurance, etc.:

Origin of Wilts

1685-95; dialectal variant of wilk to wither, itself variant of welk, Middle English welken, probably Middle Dutch welken; compare German welk withered

Examples for Wilts

A new chapel was opened at Shrewton, wilts, November 20, 1834.

And so it was in wilts, when my grandfather Lyte was a boy; and anciently everywhere.

wilts, who was borne as he was wont to say 'in the first Olympiad,' scil.

Forman was born at Quidham, a village near Wilton, in wilts, in 1552.

Portland they reported should be guarded by 2700 from Dorset and wilts.

Then it withers, wilts, and drops off, as most of them have already done.

This was the account of the parish of Sharncut, in this county of wilts.

The paper mill at Bemmarton, wilts, is 112 yeares standing .

With all their faylings, wilts cannot shew two such brothers.

He gave him also the abbey of Remesbury in wilts, with much lands belonging to it.